128 FISHERIES OF THE NORTH SEA 



adequate, and the fish never reach full 

 maturity. The cost of transplantation, 

 if properly carried out, might not be more 

 than a shilling per stone, each containing 

 many hundreds of individual plaice and 

 soles. If these immature fish had the 

 opportunity for living which the North 

 Sea banks would give them, and supposing 

 only a quarter of the same number were 

 trawled up later, the value of the fish would 

 be a hundredfold greater. 



The chief fishing port of Denmark is 

 Esbjerg, where the motor boat is largely 

 used. Most of the flat fish are exported 

 to Hamburg, which is quite accessible. 

 The Baltic side supplies chiefly herrings. 



Iceland, Greenland, and the Faroe Islands 

 belong to Denmark, but the magnificent 

 fishing grounds of these lands are not ex- 

 ploited much by the Danes themselves. 

 Iceland and the Faroe Islands are fished, 

 beyond the three-mile limit, mainly by the 

 British. The banks off the Greenland 

 coast are as yet untouched, except for seal 

 and whale fishing, an industry prosecuted 

 mainly by Norwegians. 



Germany. Although during the last 



